North Korea tests rocket engine

The team's arrival came as South Korea's new liberal president, Moon Jae-in, is trying to reach out to North Korea despite the North's push to bolster its nuclear and missile programs.

North Korea's test on Thursday could be for the smallest stage of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) rocket engine, said the usa official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The news of the new test also comes as another United States official said Wednesday there are signs of increased activity at North Korea's lone nuclear test site.

North Korea's top diplomat to India has suggested the possibility of freezing nuclear tests in an apparent bid to hold talks with the United States, as Washington resumes efforts to get China to put more pressure on Pyongyang.

North Korean news agency KCNA has released images which show another successful missile test inside the secretive state.

North Korea tested three similar motors in March, which could benefit its space programs or efforts to threaten the United States mainland. The North also conducted two nuclear tests past year alone as it openly pursues a long-range nuclear missile that could reach the USA mainland.

Moon's push to improve frayed ties hasn't reported much progress, with the North test-launching a series of newly built missiles.

While President Moon Jae-in watched, the weapon, a type of Hyunmoo-2 missile, blasted off from a test site in Taean, a coastal county southwest of Seoul, the capital, the president's office said in a statement.

Park didn't say how far the Hyunmoo-2 missile flew or where it landed, but said it accurately hit its target area.

Any military solution to the North Korea crisis would be "tragic on an unbelievable scale", Trump's defence secretary, Jim Mattis, said last month.

However, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman questioned such calls.

Saying that he wanted to evaluate South Korea's missile capability for himself, Moon added that he is now reassured.

Officials and athletes of the North Korea-led International Taekwondo Federation arrive at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul on June 23, 2017, on the eve of their performance during the opening ceremony of the World Taekwondo Federation's World Taekwondo Championships in Muju, North Jeolla Province.

Mr Warmbier, 22, was arrested in January last year while visiting the reclusive country as a tourist and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his hotel.

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